You guys continued on through the dungeon. 

(Y/N): Well, how's the map look Laios? 

Laios: I don't think we'll be reaching the third floor today. We aren't making good time. 

Weiss: Well, you did insist on making that roast basilisk. I mean granted, it was delicious, I can't deny that, but still! 

Ruby: Anything you know on the Red Dragon? 

Laios: I know that it wakes up once a month to hunt. That must have been when we ran into it the other day. 

Chilchuck: Then it's asleep with a full stomach right now? 

(Y/N): Well, we should hurr with0 

You caught Marcille! 

(Y/N): Are you okay? 

She blushed super hard being close to you. 

Marcille: I'm ... perfectly fine. 

Blake: Don't push yourself, Marcille, we need to take a break every now and then. 

Marcille: I am not pushing myself, thank you very much. 

Weiss: Oh for the love of- If you keep faking like that and get yourself hurt, you are really going to hold us back! 

Marcille then took a seat. 

Laios: It might be easier to take the outside route. 

Chilchuck: But won't the big bats get in the way? 

Marcille: Big bats? I could use my magic to- 

(Y/N): Not necessary. 

Ruby: You can leave that to us! 

Chilchuck: Or we could take the secret passage. It'll have a lot of traps, but not many monsters. 

Marcille: I know! I could use a trap-disarming spell to- 

Yang: Chilchuck can disarm them. 

Senshi: In that case, I'd like to get our provisions sorted now. 

Laios: Can't we make do with the leftovers we have? 

(Y/N): No, we need veggies, not just meat and eggs. 

Senshi: In that case, there's a mandrake colony nearby. I'll go get some while the elf-girl's resting. 

Ruby: Oh that's a good idea! 

Marcille: HEY! WAIT! 

Everyone turned to Marcille. 

(Y/N): Yes Marcille? 

Marcille: I know how to pick mandrakes! I can handle that! 

Senshi: UH ... I can handle it just- 

Marcille: NO! Handling mandrakes is extremely dangerous. Amateurs who try pay for it dearly. 

And so... 

You all went near the mandrake colony. 

(Y/N): Marcille, are you sure about this? 

Marcille: Mandrakes are a fundamental of magic and medicine, that's my field. Now, this time, I'll be taking charge! When mandrakes are pulled from the ground they scream. 

Blake: We know. It can even kill someone. 

Marcille: That's right, so we'll need a well-trained dog to pull it out! 

(Y/N): So you want us to tie a role to a dog's collar to pull at the mandrake? 

Ruby: But Marcille? 

Marcille: Yes Ruby? 

Ruby: Won't the dog die? 

Marcille: Yes. 

Ruby: That's mean! And where are you going to get the dog? 

Marcille: Well ... at school they- 

Laios: We could use a long chord. 

Ruby: See? Laios gets it. If we use a long chord we can pull it out and we wouldn't need the dog. Heck (Y/N) has an ability that will let him pull it out from far away! 

(Y/N): It's true! 

Marcilel: Uh ... 

Senshi went up to a mandrake and then as he pulled it out- 

???: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! 

You, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Chilchuck, and Laios all froze in place at that scream! 

Senshi had cut the head of the mandrake off to make it not scream. 

Blake: Geez Marcille. 

Weiss: That woman has an impressive set of lungs on her. 

Ruby: (rubbing her ears) I'll say. 

Senshi: It's easy if you cut off their heads before they scream. They can't make a sound without their heads. 

(Y/N): That's actually really effective! Good idea Senshi! 

Yang: Well, he is the expert obviously. 

Marcille: But that's way too dangerous! 

Senshi: I've eaten them like this for years! 

Marcille: Nothign's riskier than that sort of ama- 

Chilchuck: Marcille, Senshi has done this before. Have you ever used the method from the book? 

Marcille: Well ... I ... y-yes. 

Ruby: Poor puppy. 

Laios: It's settled, we'll use Senshi's method. 

(Y/N): Sorry Marcille. 

You all got to work on removing Mandrake heads as Marcille wandered off. 

Marcille: Maybe I'll just show them! I'll prove that this method makes sense! And then they'll all beg they are sorry to me! But what do I use? 

She looked around and then tied a rope to a mandrake's head. 

Then she went up to a tree that had a large piece of bat guano. 

Marcille: To think Laios' knowledge would help! 

She then climbed up a long tower to avoid the scream and fired a fireball spell at a tree! 

Out from the hole came a swarm of bats! 

One of them got around the rope and pulled the mandrake out! 

The mandrake then let out its scream as Marcille was satisfied with the results! 

(Y/N): Hey, does anyone hear- 

Blake: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! MY EARS!!!! 

Blake's ears were bleeding hard! 

And then the bat flew right for Marcille! 

Marcille: AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! Looks like practice is important. It's best to use dogs instead of bats! 

The bat then crashed into her! 

(Y/N) and Laios: MARCILLE! 

You both went to check up on her. 

(Y/N): Is she okay? 

Laios: Yes, it seems so. But what ha- 

You both saw the mandrake. 

(Y/N): She use that bat instead of a dog? Oh geez. Marcille? Hey, are you okay? 

Marcille: (brain-damaged like voice) Yes. I'm the very picture of good health. 

(Y/N): You're clearly not! 

Laios: We need to keep talking to her. 

(Y/N): Why did you do that? 

Marcille: I was anxious because someone said I was holding you back. 

(Y/N:) Oh ... I- 

Marcille: I'm unable to do anything for you, and it's lonely. 

(Y/N): Uh ... 

Laios: The deeper into the dungeon we go, the stronger the monsters will get. Your magic will be a big asset for us. I didnt' want to tire you out on these surface levels. 

(Y/N): It's true! We need to rely on our strengths. In fact, I think someone as cute and smart as you will be of big help! 

Marcille: (all cute and happy) REALLY?! 

(Y/N): Y- 

She hugged you! 

Marcille: OH THANK YOU! 

(Y/N): HAHAHAHA! You're welcome! 

Later... 

Senshi: I think we should make omelettes today! 

(Y/N): Oh! Are we going to use the Basilisk eggs? 

Senshi: Yep. 

Ruby: Oh boy! 

Marcille: Wait, the snake is the tail right? So, why do these look like- 

Weiss: The chicken is the tail of the basilisk. They used to think the snake was the tail, but further research shows otherwise. 

Marcille: UGH! 

Blake: And now she's lost it. 

(Y/N): Okay Senshi, what do we do? 

Senshi: First mince the mandrakes. 

(Y/N): Right! 

Senshi: Then fry them in bacon fat, and pour the egs over them. 

(Y/N): OKAY! 

You did as he said and- 

(Y/N): TA-DA! 

Mandrake and Basilisk Omelette 

Ruby: OOH! OMELETTES! 

Chilchuck: You know, they're a lot yellower than the chicken eggs. 

Laios I'd say they're more red than yellow. 

Senshi: These are the mandrakes we picked. I used the elf-girl's mandrakes in this one. 

Marcille: Yeah, why don't you kick me while I'm already down. 

Weiss ate one. 

Weiss: MMM! So good! 

Chilchuck: It doesn't taste bitter at all. 

Senshi: I guess letting the scream go out takes some sort of impurity out of it. Taking a little trouble to improve the flavor is a fundamental of cooking I guess. Thank you Marcille. Your knowledge and book are wonderful. 

Marcille: That's not what I wanted to prove, I just- 

You put some in her mouth. 

Marcille: MMMM! 

(Y/N): There, that should do it. 

Ruby: Ah, I love it when we all come together! 

Blake: Just wait until the next dish, I'm sure she's going to keep losing it. 

And so... 

You guys found the secret passageway that Chilchuck talked about. 

Chilchuck: Wait, there are traps up ahead. 

Ruby: How can you tell? 

Chilchuck: I jut know. It's my job to know. 

He took his shoes off and proceeded to walk around to see where the traps were. 

Chilchuck: Okay, you can step here, here, and on this tile. 

You all walked where he pointed, only for Meshi to hit a switch and- 

Eveyrone: SENSHI! 

Senshi: I don't like this fiddly stuff. 

Chilchuck: Now is not the time! Don't cause me trouble! Don't treat this lightly! Some traps work together, some affect each other! If one of them moves, all my calculations go right out the window! Just do what- 

But he stepped on another switch, and Chilchuck almost got hit by an axe! 

Chilchuck: AAAAAAAAGH! 

He dodged all of the traps over and over again as Senshi kept activating them. 

Senshi: What a fierce fire. I see. There really are all sorts of traps already. 

Chilchuck: Most fire traps have oil or fuel mechanisms near them! I'm really not up for a whole roasted dwarf, thanks! 

Senshi: Roasted whole ... no that's not it. 

Chilchuk: Huh? 

(Y/N): Come on, let's just go! 

And so... 

You all continued down and down as Laios realized something. 

Laios: Hmm ... 

(Y/N): What's up Laios? 

Laios: The emblem on the hilt of my sword is gone. 

(Y/N): Huh? 

Marcille: It's probably because you were rough with it. 

Yang: Was it that important? 

Laios: Yes, it was three years ago when the party was just starting out. 

Laios recounted to you all about how he and Falin encountered a living armor. 

(Y/N): Living Armor. 

Laios: Just looking at it scared me. So, I did a lot of research into it. I read all sorts of documents but none of them said what it tasted like. Say, do you think you could cook it Senshi? 

Senshi: Huh? Armor's not edible. 

Ruby: Yeah, it's magic controlled. Senshi, while it sounds really cool, it's ... impossible. 

Laios: I heard that you can eat leather shoes if you cook them right. 

Senshi: Tanned hide is hard to eat. It would be much easier to hunt other monsters. 

Laios: So, you can't eat living armor. 

But then... 

You guys came across a hallway with armor strewn about. 

Blake: Looks like we have our living armors after all. 

(Y/N): Okay, let's go! 

You all ran for it, but then one of them started to move! 

Ruby: AGH! 

Ruby cut its head off and then Weiss and Blake cut off two more heads! 

Ruby: GO! 

But the armors put on their heads! 

Ruby: UH OH! We got to go for the exit before- 

But the other armors blocked the path. 

Ruby: That happens. 

Marcille: Now they're blocking our path! 

Soon you guys were cornered. 

(Y/N): Hmm ... they mus the controlled by someone. 

Yang: How can you tell? 

(Y/N): That's usually how they operate. They're like a colony. 

Laios: So, a controller. 

(Y/N): Yes. We need to make a path to get through them. 

Marcille: But how?! No decent person would use magic this powerful!

 Laios: Leave the so me!

Ruby: Laios? 

Laios: I got this! 

(Y/N): Chilchuck, you hide. 

Chilchuck went off. 

(Y/N): Okay, you go for it Laios! EVERYONE! LET'S GO! 

Marcille, Senshi, and Team RWBY got their weapons ready. 

Marcille: HEY ARMORS! 

Senshi: OVER HERE! 

They turn to you guys. 

(Y/N): COME ON METAL HEADS! THIS WAY! 

Yang: This will be a knight to remember! 

Marcille: Yang, that was terrible. 

Yang: Geez, you people don't get it. 

You all kept the armors busy as Laios saw the leader! 

Laios: I've never seen armor like this before> I'll just have to find out. 

He goes forward and the armor goes to attack him! 

Laios: DAMN! 

He got his sword out, but it destroyed it easily! 

Laios: NOT GOOD! 

He threw a brick at it and it tried to protect its shield. 

Laios: Huh? What's by the shield? Wait ... I've seen this before. 

He then noticed an egg sac. 

Laios: Some creature's eggs. It was protecting those! But why? Wait ... The way it's moving ... of course! These are living creatures! They're acting on instinct to protect the eggs! They're living so ... they can be eaten! 

He analyzed his strategy and then charged right at the armor and hit it in the side and knocked the helmet off! 

But as he looked in- 

Laios: Nothing inside? Is it that empty? Or- 

The armor charged to attack and he hid behind a pillar. 

Then he checked the helmet. 

Laios: There's a gap in the edge. 

He used his broken sword and saw something creeping out! 

It was a mollusk! 

Laios: A mollusk! So, they're fine when you cut them apart, because they're colonies of individuals anyway. 

He threw the helmet back at the armor and then knocked it down and began to do the same thing with the rest of the armor! 

Laios: GUYS! 

He came out and threw the shield out. 

(Y/N): Laios, what the-

The armors went over to the shield. 

Ruby: How did- 

Marcille: What was that? 

Laios: It's alive. Look. 

He showed the mollusk. 

Weiss: Mollusks? 

Laios: YUes! They link arms with each other and perform the role of the muscles in that area. They're usually more docile. They only attack when they feel threatened, but unfortunately, they're spawning right now. 

(Y/N): So, they're oviparus. Senshi? 

Senshi: Let's give it a try! I've never cooked these before, so this should be a surprise. 

Marcille: What if they're highly poisonous? 

Laios: I don't think creatures with strong poison would hide it. 

(Y/N): Actualy, they do, and again, Poison Checker. 

You and Senshi got to cooking. 

Soon... 

(Y/N): We have Living Armor Stir Fry, Dwarf-Style, Living Armor Casserole, Living Armor Soup, and Grilled LIving Armor! 

Chilchuck: It smells like iron. 

(Y/N): Yeah. But- 

You all look at Laios. 

Laios: What? Why are you guys looking at me like that? 

Ruby: It was your idea to eat it. 

Blake: So, it should be you who tries it first. 

Laios: Alright. 

Chilchuck: If he dies, let's just leave him there. 

(Y/N): CHILCHUCK! 

Laios ate the Grilled Living Armor, and- 

Laios: SO GOOD! 

You then ate some. 

(Y/N): OH HELL YEAH! THIS IS GOOD! 

Chilchuck and Ruby then tried the Stir Fry. 

Ruby: MMMMM! SO GOOD! 

Chilchuck: Not bad, a little sticky though. 

Marcille and Weiss had the soup. 

Weiss: It kind of tastes like mushrooms. 

Laios: I know right? 

Marcille: What about the casserole? 

Laios then had it. 

Laios: Moldy. 

He then got up and looked at the sword. 

Laios: Hmm ... 

(Y/N): You lost your sword huh? Why don't you take that one? 

Laios: Okay. 

As he picked it up, he noticed some eyes come out from it. 

Laios: HUH?! 

Blake: Laios, are you- 

Laios: Just fine! 

Blake: Okay, whatever you say. 

With that, you all continued on through the dungeon.